"Gazprom" began supplying gas to Azerbaijan under a new contract with the company SOCAR, the volume of deliveries in the period up to March will be up to 1 billion cubic meters.

"On November 15, the supply of Russian gas to Azerbaijan under a new gas purchase and sale agreement began. The document was signed between Gazprom Export and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). Deliveries will be carried out until March 2023. The volume of deliveries is up to 1 billion cubic meters of gas," reads the statement of Gazprom on its channel in the messenger Telegram.

Gazprom used to supply gas to Azerbaijan in 2000-2006, but then the country began increasing the production of gas for export to Georgia and Turkey from Shah Deniz field. In 2017-2018, supplies resumed. Since 2019, after the launch of the second phase of Shah Deniz, Azerbaijan again refused to purchase gas from Russia.